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Show Vernal Readies For Annual Rodeo, Top Talent Listed Western dress and lingo have taken over Vernal as final preparations pre-parations are being made for Vernal's annual rodeo, June 25-27 25-27 at the Uintah County Fairgrounds. Fair-grounds. Mary Ann King, rodeo queen, and her attendants, Laura Mae ' Whitmer, "Miss Vernal," and Pat Sutton, "Miss Uintah," will head a mile-long parade down the gaily decorated Main Street each morning at 10:30 o'clock. Horse-drawn floats by civic clubs, churches and business organizations or-ganizations will follow the royalty. roy-alty. No autos of a vintage younger than 1930 will be allowed. al-lowed. The high school bands from Uintah and Union schools will add the musical background. back-ground. According to Vern Gifford, rodeo committeeman, the parade pa-rade will be on the fullest scale yet staged in Vernal. . Riding clubs from adjacent towns, as well as the Vernal Ridirig and Roping clubs, will add much color. The Silver Spurs and Saddleiers from Salt Lake City will also join the march. Another added attraction attrac-tion will be the Holland Furnace Fur-nace Co.'s pony team, consisting consist-ing of eight ponies weighing i from 300 to 500 pounds each. Tex Ritter, who will play for the dance at the Imeprial Hall each evening, also will appear in the parade, as well as many local horsemen and horsewomen. horsewo-men. Ken Boen, world-famous clown and bullfighter, will add laughs. Rodeo events will include bareback riding, calf roping, saddle bronc riding, bulldogging and Brahma bull riding, are expected ex-pected to' draw cowboys from most of the Western states. |